Karan Kamdar's Posts

1MW Chess Robots - The Making

Posted by Karan Kamdar on March 18, 2015 at 6:04am

The 1MW team built the world's first truly autonomous large scale robotic chess set and successfully installed it at KidZania, Mumbai. This is the making of the version 2.0 of our chess robots. The bots are NOT remote controlled and they run a distributed chess engine and they communicate amongst themselves to come up with a team decision. Upto 16 people can play against these smart bots on in an interactive setting.

Kindly reach us through our contact page at: http://1martianway.com/contact.html for any enquiries. More info at: http://1martianway.com/chess-robots.html

Looking forward to a bright future for our bots.

1MW Burger Dropping Drone for BurgerKing India

Posted by Karan Kamdar on March 18, 2015 at 5:54am

Our team built a burger dropping drone for the Burger King India Launch Event using a modified Phantom 2 Vision + Drone fitted with custom gripper and electronics.

We modified the DJI Phantom 2 Vision + Drone by fitting it with a robotic gripper and custom electronics. The gripper was remotely triggered through the camera motion tilt while in mid-air using the DJI Vision App. The submitted video contains the whole technical description of this mod.

We also executed the project in under two weeks timeline and performed lots of field testing and corrections and payload testing in order for the Phantom to lift the weight of the Whopper burger. We worked 20 hrs for two weeks, even in darkness and then successfully did the launch for BurgerKing India at the Phoenix Mall in Lower Parel, Mumbai, India. The event was a great success and everyone absolutely loved the drone in action.

The objective was to have the drone hover in mid-air while the winner of the Whopper contestant below awaited having the burger dropped off by our modified Phantom above. Glory be to the Phantom!

- See more at: http://event.dji.com/dji-stories/content/1mw-burger-dropping-drone-burgerking-india-0#sthash.Lm9fha3t.dpuf